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81) This Rebel Heart
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Csilla has felt protected by the Duna river her entire life, and especially during the Holocaust of World War II, but that magic seems to have broken when Communists took control of Hungary. When her parents are killed by the secret police, Csilla's deep feelings of betrayal and disconnection cause her to plan her escape from her unrecognizable homeland. They are posthumously exonerated, however, sparking a series of protests that make her reconsider...
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall. But even to the balloon makers Ellie's time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything--including her only way home--to...
Author
Series
Bosch volume 11
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Years after the death of a sixteen-year-old girl is ruled a suicide, detective Harry Bosch receives DNA evidence that reopens the case, which involves an investigation of a white supremacist with close ties to the LAPD.
84) Little Thieves
Author
Series
Little Thieves volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
504 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Margaret Simon likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She's just moved from New York City to the suburbs and is anxious to fit in with her new friends. They swear they'll tell each other everything--first bras, first kisses, first periods--everything. But some things are just too private to talk about, even with your friends, and especially when you're the new girl. Lucky for Margaret, she's got someone else to confide...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
464 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a scandal-torn Pennsylvania town, beloved baseball coach and teacher Nate Winters is accused of having an affair with a student, which he firmly denies. When the girl suddenly disappears, he becomes the prime suspect"--
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic. They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than one square mile of land. It was out in the fields, in the middle of mango season, that the rumors started. Then one night in the...
89) Home before dark
Author
Language
English
Description
After being away for fifteen years, photojournalist Jessie Ryder returns to her childhood home in Texas to finally meet the daughter she gave up for adoption, but secrets from her past threaten to destroy their newfound friendship.
90) Just Ella
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.
Author
Series
Fushigi Yugi volume 18
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Shojo Beat ed.
Physical Desc
195 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
92) Promise me
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar offers a ride home to a young girl to prevent her from accepting a ride from a drunk driver, but when the girl disappears, he is forced to rescue her to prove his innocence.
93) Joelle's secret
Author
Publisher
B & H Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Doubleday large print home library ed.
Physical Desc
520 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This mid-1800s tale begins with seventeen-year-old Joelle Jones fending off unwelcome advances from her predatory stepfather just after her mother has died. When the man is declared Joelle's legal guardian, she knows he will have his way with her, so in desperation runs away.
94) On a sunbeam
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together. Two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love, only to learn the pain of loss.
Author
Series
Lumberjanes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Five girls become instant best friends when they go to camp and discover there is a lot more to the summer than learning to how to paddle a canoe. Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types is not your average summer camp and Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are not your average campers. Between the river monsters, magic, and myths, this summer is only just beginning!
96) How to be both
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Trying to discover why a Harlem high school student is being targeted for murder, quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protegee, Amelia Sachs, look for answers in the student's term paper about her civil rights activist ancestor.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her "glamour" to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story - a story that has never been told ... until now. This extraordinary book includes full-color art and an excerpt from "Winter," the next book in the Lunar Chronicles series.